Bad Run at Cinema

By the way, since I want to say this:
What a crappy month it’s been for films in the cinema. I hadn’t gone in some time, but of the three films I saw, only Kung-Fu Panda amused me. Actually, it was good fun, once you got beyond the feelgoodishness of it all. I mean, it was [...]

& Here Once Again Commences the Deluge. (Wherein Students Grumble Their Way to a Higher Grade… Not!)

The grades went up late this afternoon, and then I took Lime out to celebrate. She has a job interview next week, and I’m done grading.
On the way home, though, I joked with her that my email inbox would be full of emails from students begging for a higher grade. This is a binannual ritual [...]

Only One?

There’s a student in one of my classes who got herself an unofficial final grade of 115.7% in one of the classes she took with me. The deal is that there’s a class blog, and students who post constantly during semester can do so at an unlimited amount, provided it’s quality stuff. They get one [...]

Night Guard Question

Langage barrier with the dentist, so I’m asking here!
I got my night guard today from the dentist, to deal with the teeth-grinding issues I have when I sleep.
But when I first got it, the thing was REALLY tight, like, to the point of hurting. The dentist made some adjustments and all, but it still feels [...]

Voix Angelique

One of the things I miss, over here in Korea, is how few really interesting foreign acts come and do shows here — at least, how few of such shows are accessible to me, given my schedule and given the range of what comes here. There’s no demand here for, say, a group like the [...]

Inept Security Theater

It’s one thing when people have to put up with security theater in the airports of the world, but my sense is that, unlike one might expect, the Korean airport security have not quite upped the ante on pointless and officious ritual. It’s possible to get through security relatively quickly. Though, uh, that might not [...]

Clarion West Write-a-thon, 2008

This year I’ve decided to do the write-a-thon again, though not in such a demanding way as I did last year. Last year, I wrote something like 15,000 words a week. Which made me, physically, a little sick, so I won’t be doing that again. (I need to get my blood pressure and health under [...]

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